Includes index.

The animal kingdom -- What is an animal? -- Evolution -- Types of animals -- Beetle diversity -- Fish and amphibians -- Reptiles and birds -- Mammals -- Prehistoric paintings -- Shape and size -- Symmetry and asymmetry -- Forming colonies -- Radial symmetry -- Symmetry in motion -- The Darwinists -- Comb jellies -- Bodies with simple heads -- Sexual differences -- The renaissance eye -- Segmented bodies -- Vertebrate bodies -- Frog body form -- Shape shifters -- Large and small -- Fantasy beasts -- Tall animals -- Skeletons -- Communal skeletons -- Water skeletons -- External skeletons -- Exoskeletons on land -- Chalky skeletons -- Internal skeletons -- Aboriginal insights -- Vertebrate skeletons -- Vertebrate shells -- Bird skeletons -- Cheetah -- Mammal horns -- Deer antlers -- Skin, coats, and armor -- Permeable skin -- Getting oxygen -- Toxic skin -- Skin color -- Forming a shell -- Mollusk shells -- Vertebrate scales -- Reptile skin -- Advertisement colors -- In the mughal courts -- Frills and dewlaps -- Weapons and fighting -- Blending in -- Lichen katydid -- Feathers -- Flight feathers -- Display plumage -- Seasonal protection -- Mammal fur -- Expressionist nature -- Skin glands -- Horns from skin -- Armored skin -- Senses -- Sensitive antennae -- Sensory bristles -- Small world -- Sensory whiskers -- Sensing under water -- Tasting the air -- Sensing heat -- Electrical sense -- Detecting light -- Pupil shapes -- Compound eyes -- Color vision -- Seeing depth -- Common kingfisher -- Scent detection -- Smell in birds -- Song birds -- Smell in mammals -- How animals hear -- Mammal ears -- Listening for echoes -- Common dolphin -- Mouths and jaws -- Filter feeding -- Christmas tree worms -- Invertebrate jaws -- Injecting venom -- Vertebrate jaws -- Bird bills -- Bird bill shapes -- Art of the ornithologist -- Carnivore teeth -- Giant panda -- Eating plants -- Flexible faces -- Legs, arms, tentacles, and tails -- Tube feet -- Jointed legs -- Vertebrate limbs -- Vertebrate claws -- Tiger -- Sticky feet -- Raptor feet -- Climbing and perching -- Mammal hooves -- Alpine ibex -- Arthropod pincers -- Artists of the floating world -- swinging through tree -- Primate hands -- Orangutan -- Octopus arms -- Stinging tentacles -- Prehensile tails -- Pintailed whydah -- Fins, flippers, and paddles -- Nekton and plankton -- Blue dragon sea slug -- How fish swim -- Underwater wings -- Fish fins -- Swimming with the dorsal fin -- Four-winged flying fish -- Venomous spines -- Empire of abundance -- Walking on the seabed -- Returning to water -- Tail flukes -- Wings and parachutes -- Insect flight -- Scaly wings -- Gliding and parachuting -- How birds fly -- Lammergeier -- Bird wings -- Emperor penguin -- Hovering -- Egyptian birdlife -- Wings of skin -- Eggs and Offspring -- Making eggs -- Fertilization -- Parental devotion -- Polar bear -- Shelled eggs -- Bird eggs -- Marsupial pouches -- From larva to adult -- Amphibian metamorphosis -- Reaching maturity -- Classification -- Glossary.